Belle Meade Social is a Perkins Extended East Memphis bar and restaurant pouring craft cocktails and serving modern American steaks and salads, opened 2023.
Signature dishes: Wood-grilled steaks, Craft cocktails
Must order: Bone-in ribeye, dry martini, the seasonal salad.
Tip: Sunday brunch starts at 11:00; the bar takes walk-ins on weeknights and the patio is the seat in spring.
Address: 518 Perkins Ext, Memphis, TN 38117
Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman's Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen runs Italian cooking rooted in Southern ingredients from East Memphis since 2008.
Signature: Maw Maw's gnocchi, House-made pastas
Order: Maw Maw's potato gnocchi with red sugo, a recipe from Hudman's grandmother.
Tip: Open Tuesday through Saturday for dinner. Reserve on Resy two weeks out; the bar takes walk-ins.
Ticer and Hudman's wood-fired pizza and charcuterie room in East Memphis runs a Southern-Italian playbook on a covered Brookhaven Circle patio since 2012.
Signature: Wood-fired pizzas, House charcuterie
Order: The pizza of the night and a board of house salumi.
Tip: Brunch on Sundays runs until 14:00 with biscuits, ricotta and bacon-fat doughnuts. Patio first.
Chef Kelly English's Restaurant Iris in Memphis moved to Poplar Avenue in 2022 with a tighter menu of New Orleans Creole built on Mississippi seafood.
Signature: Crawfish and grits, Pork belly
Order: Crawfish and grits with andouille; a Sazerac to start.
Tip: Lunch service was added with the move; the four-course tasting menu is the steady bet at dinner.
Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman's Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen runs Italian cooking rooted in Southern ingredients from East Memphis since 2008.
Signature: Maw Maw's gnocchi, House-made pastas
Order: Maw Maw's potato gnocchi with red sugo, a recipe from Hudman's grandmother.
Tip: Open Tuesday through Saturday for dinner. Reserve on Resy two weeks out; the bar takes walk-ins.
Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman's downtown Memphis room pairs Tuscan and Sicilian grandmother cooking with Southern ingredients in the Chisca on Main building.
Signature: House-made pastas, Wood-roasted plates
Order: Whatever pasta they are rolling that night, plus the wood-roasted whole fish.
Tip: Booth seats in the bar mean walk-in dinner on most weeknights; the dining room books two weeks out on Resy.
Ticer and Hudman's wood-fired pizza and charcuterie room in East Memphis runs a Southern-Italian playbook on a covered Brookhaven Circle patio since 2012.
Signature: Wood-fired pizzas, House charcuterie
Order: The pizza of the night and a board of house salumi.
Tip: Brunch on Sundays runs until 14:00 with biscuits, ricotta and bacon-fat doughnuts. Patio first.
Chef Kelly English's Restaurant Iris in Memphis moved to Poplar Avenue in 2022 with a tighter menu of New Orleans Creole built on Mississippi seafood.
Signature: Crawfish and grits, Pork belly
Order: Crawfish and grits with andouille; a Sazerac to start.
Tip: Lunch service was added with the move; the four-course tasting menu is the steady bet at dinner.
Karen Carrier's Cooper-Young Memphis room sits inside a 1940s beauty salon where Priscilla Presley once did her hair, open since 2002 with a globe-trotting menu.
Signature: Watermelon and wings, Pho
Order: Watermelon wings with feta and the Vietnamese pho.
Tip: Saturday brunch fills the booths fast. Sit at the bar for a faster meal under the dryer hoods.
The Four Way is Memphis's defining Black-owned soul food room on Mississippi Boulevard since 1946. Martin Luther King Jr. ate here; the walls show the guests.
Signature: Fried chicken, Smothered turkey wings
Order: Smothered turkey wings, collard greens, mac and cheese, sweet potato pie.
Tip: Open Wednesday to Saturday for lunch only, 11:00 to 17:00. Cash and card both fine.
